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Laddar... Deadly Attractionav Diane Hoh
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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned High atop a hillside sits Nightmare Hall. For Hailey Kingman, the nightmare is just beginning . . . A sophomore at Salem U, Robert Q. Parker is the BMOC (Big Man on Campus). But when he humiliates his girlfriend, Darlene Riggs, by cruelly dumping her, things turn ugly. First, Robert Q's new girlfriend, Gerrie, is attacked. Then, his jacket is slashed to shreds and his sports car is set on fire. Is Darlene getting her revenge? Or is it someone with a different ax to grind? The mystery deepens when Hailey's room at Nightingale Hall is trashed. But when a student is killed and Hailey herself becomes a target, she realizes that the truth is far from what everyone thinks. The students of Salem U are about to find out what happens when obsession turns deadly. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Diane Hoh including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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This is a well-plotted thriller with no trace of the supernatural and without the heavy-handed red herrings of 'Silent Scream'. The book is told through Hailey's perspective, weird because she is not a part of the titular 'Deadly Attraction' or a particularly close friend of either - she was just kind to Darlene a few times - so to keep the reader informed of the plot Hailey must obsess over the motivations and the actions of Robert Q. and his jerky rich-kid friends.
Salem University is revealed to be a pretty big place so this hyper-concentration on a select group of 'in' students is odd. I went to a small college of less than 3,000 students and it was still too big to have one group of pretty, popular folk dominate the social hierarchy the way Robert Q., Gerrie Northrup, Richard Wentworth and Puffy Wycroft (pleeeeaaase tell me she's the star of a future novel!) seem to.
The attraction is between young diner waitress Darlene Riggs and Robert Q., a callous womanizer who is somehow the darling of campus, possibly because of his red Miata. When he ditches Darlene to go back to his society girlfriend Gerrie. Darlene is furious, but blames Richard's friends more than Richard himself.
What follows are a series of attacks and Hailey herself becomes a target, presumably because she helped Darlene with her hair and make-up and talks to her on the phone. The suspects include Darlene's jealous townie boyfriend, Darlene's brother Mike who apparently attends Salem but who nobody knows, and Darlene herself of course. Some of the attacks seemed a little too elaborate - putting a professor's papers in a girl's locker (a locker in college?) and reporting her as a cheater - but there were some clever misdirections and a great identity twist.
There wasn't that much to elevate this above other teen thrillers, but the continuity gives me hope for the series. Diane Hoh has a more subtle touch then her male peers. I may have to hunt these out instead of more 'Fear Street'.
Nightmare Hall
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